Toys and the Construction of Racial Otherness in Canada, 1945 to 1980

La construction de l'altérité noire dans les jouets au Canada, 1945-1980.
Presentation by Philippe Bélanger-Landry - UQAM

In this presentation, Philippe Bélanger-Landry examines racialized toys marketed in Canadian department store catalogues from 1945 to 1980. He shows how the toys depicting figures of racial otherness referenced and reinforced a range of stereotypes and acted as informal instruments of racial socialialization.

This event is organized by the Laboratoire d'histoire et de patrimoine de Montréal of the Université du Québec à Montréal, in collaboration with the TableRonde du Mois de l'histoire des Noir.e.s.

Attendance is possible in person or by Zoom. Registration compulsory.